December 26, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



925 



sources of the laboratory for research at least 

 threefold. The cost of the addition and re- 

 construction was about $200,000, and was the 

 gift of the president of the university board 

 of trustees, Mr. Martin A. Eyerson. 



Four distinct building projects are going 

 forward at the Carnegie Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, involving an expenditure of approxi- 

 mately $750,000. The concrete foundations 

 are now ready for the steel work in the central 

 building and on the new wing for the Mar- 

 garet Morrison Carnegie School for Women. 

 The former is to be occupied by the general 

 executive offices and a students' union. Ma- 

 chinery Hall, to house the electrical and me- 

 chanical engineering departments, is nearing 

 completion. The high tower, the last piece of 

 work to be done on this structure, will be 

 finished within another month. The front sec- 

 tion of the school of design building, includ- 

 ing the auditorium, the exhibition rooms and 

 the sculpture work on the exterior, is also still 

 under construction. The following new ap- 

 pointments to the faculty of the school of ap- 

 plied science were made this year : Thomas 6. 

 Estep, instructor in mechanical engineering; 

 Charles R. Fettke, instructor in geology; S. 

 Leslie Miller, instructor in civil engineering; 

 Andrew S. Tount, instructor in physical 

 chemistry; Charles P. Mills, instructor in 

 mathematics, and Donald H. Sweet, instructor 

 in physics laboratory. 



The trustees of Barnard College, Columbia 

 University, announce that Mrs. Clinton 

 Ogilvie has promised to contribute $10,000 

 toward $1,000,000 now being raised for en- 

 dowment. 



Four thousand dollars to the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology for a scholarship pre- 

 ferably to aid Jewish students is a bequest of 

 the late Louis Weissbein, the Boston architect. 



The late Dr. Gavin Paterson Tennent, of 

 Glasgow, by his will bequeathed his entire for- 

 tune in medical charity. To the University 

 of Glasgow he left £25,000, as endovnnent for 

 the faculty of medicine. 



The committee in charge of the Sarah Ber- 

 liner Eesearch Fellowship for Women offers 



annually a fellowship of the value of one thou- 

 sand dollars, available for study and research 

 in physics, chemistry or biology, in either 

 America or Europe. This fellowship is open 

 to women holding the degree of doctor of phi- 

 losophy, or to those similarly equipped for the 

 work of further research; applications for this 

 fellowship must be in the hands of the chair- 

 man of the committee, Mrs. Christine Ladd- 

 Franklin, 527 Cathedral Parkway, New York, 

 by the first of January of each year. 



Professor Ernest Merritt, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has resigned as dean of the graduate 

 school, the resignation to take effect in June, 

 1914. Professor Merritt will remain at Cor- 

 nell, and will devote all his time hereafter to 

 the work of the department of physics. 



The following promotions have been made 

 in the College of the City of New York : Fred- 

 erick G. Eeynolds to associate professor of 

 mathematics. To be assistant professor: E. 

 Stevenson in chemistry; M. Philip in mathe- 

 matics; A. J. Goldfarb and G. G. Scott in 

 natural history. To be instructor: G. M. 

 Brett in mathematics ; F. WoU in physical in- 

 struction. 



The following appointments have been 

 made in the school of medicine. University of 

 Pittsburgh: Dr. J. A. Hagemann, instructor 

 in laryngology; Dr. F. V. Lichtenfels, demon- 

 strator in laryngology; Dr. August Soffel, in- 

 structor in laryngology; Dr. A. P. D'zmura, 

 demonstrator in medicine; Dr. G. C. Weil, 

 demonstrator in surgery ; Dr. E. W. zur Horst, 

 demonstrator in medicine; Dr. A. W. Duff, 

 demonstrator in otology; Dr. H. H. Permar, 

 demonstrator in pathology ; Mr. H. N. Malone, 

 student assistant in anatomy. Dr. Ellen J. 

 Patterson has been promoted from assistant 

 professor of laryngology to associate professor. 



Dr. H. M. Sheffer, recently instructor in 

 mathematics in Cornell University, has been 

 appointed instructor in philosophy in the Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota. 



Dr. Gwilym Owen, lecturer on physics at 

 Liverpool University, has been appointed pro- 

 fessor of physics at Auckland University Col- 

 lege, New Zealand. 



